[mplayer-dev-eng] fixing installation of localized manpages
Dominik Mierzejewski
dominik at rangers.eu.org
Thu Feb 20 11:37:46 CET 2003
On Thursday, 20 February 2003, Andreas Hess wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:02:24AM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > We'll see about that. Also, it doesn't allow to select the GUI language if
> > you want all man pages.
>
> Blah! If your system has a lot of international users, who need the
> manpage in their own language, the GUI should have the one language,
> that's most likely to be understood by all of those users. And this
> is english.
No. If there are translations available, users should be able to select
whatever translation they wish using standard locale(1) settings.
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